- 30 - They assured us that death did in reality not exist, that it only constituted a completely natural transition from the visible to an invisible world and that higher-developed spirits were constantly looking for opportunities to communicate with us here in order to teach us about the unforeseen possibilities of upward development as spirits that awaited us there! – But that the dying, the separation of the spirit from the body, happened in such a simple and natural way that most people do not become aware of the shorter or longer period of transition. But as they were never instructed about the spiritual side of their existence, they think in their ignorance that even as deceased human beings, they still remain at the places of their terrestrial activities! They furthermore asserted that many spirits are attracted by the ‘magnetic aura’ of people, that they enter them thereby besieging or possessing their victims; neither the spirit nor the affected person must necessarily be consciously aware of such an intrusiveness. In this way, spirits do however, without realising it – but certainly often with malicious intent – become the instigators of unspeakable calamities and miseries by causing physical decline, moral inferiority, crimes and apparent insaneness! The spirits said that to get to the root of this evil is fraught with dangers for the novice in the field of psychic research, but that it was even more dangerous to remain in ignorance about these facts, particularly for the sensitive neurotic. These spirit entities also explained that through planned ‘transference’, that is to say, by diverting such possession spirits from their victims by enticing them to enter a medium, the correctness of the hypothesis and the facts of the truth can be verified. Such a transfer of the mental disorders to a medium could free the patients from their tormenting spirits and the latter be made accessible to the influences of more advanced spirits who can then take care of them and teach them the higher laws of life. They asserted to have found an ideal instrument for such experiments in my wife and they suggested that they could verify the correctness of their assertions, if I was prepared to work with them. I should therefore take care of these ignorant spirits and teach them, whilst allowing them to take completely control of the body of my wife for a while, without causing any damage to her in the process. Keenly concerned with ascertaining whether these extreme assertions really applied or not, we complied with their seemingly daring suggestion. If the suggestions made to us proved to be appropriate, they could be of enormous importance in regards to the solving of many mysteries the soul life and the crimes committed by other mentally ill people revealed so far. The leading spirits often allowed unexpected declaration to slip through during the execution of their suggestions, some of them already took place whilst I was still at the beginning of my medical studies. I left my house one day without entertaining the thought of immediately proceeding with dissecting something at the lab. My wife’s subconscious could therefore not be involved in what happened later. The students were asked to dissect the whole lower limbs of a cadaver. The first cadaver destined to be dissected was that of a man of about 60 years old and I began with dissecting one of his legs that afternoon. I returned home at around 5pm in the afternoon and I had hardly entered through the door when my wife was affected by a sudden feeling of being unwell. She complaint that she felt ‘strange’ and she swayed back and forth as if she wanted to fall. When I placed my hand on her shoulder, she stood erect and an alien entity took possession of her which in turn said with a threatening gesture of the hand: ‘What is this idea of carving me up?’ I replied that I wasn’t aware that I had carved anyone up, but the spirit replied in anger: ‘You certainly did, you are carving up my leg!’ Now I comprehended: The soul of the person who’s cadaver I had begun to dissect had followed me home and I now started to talk with the deceased, but immediately guided my wife to a chair. The deceased vehemently objected and told me that I had no right to touch him. To my reply that I had indeed the right to touch my wife, he replied: ‘Your wife? – What are you talking about? – I am not a woman, I am a man!’ I explained to him that he had discarded his mortal body and that he was now using my wife’s body. His ‘spirit’ was here and his body was at the university. Once he finally seemed to grasp this, I said: A case in point, if I were to dissect your body at the university right now, I couldn’t actually kill you, because you are here!’
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